Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1941 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PAGE 7 |severed the Serbs from the Allies

| | |in Greece. But two years later the ENGLAND 10 GET W r M T a Y final crack-up of the Central Powa Ooves Oo a lers began in the same region. | 1 On | ——— Hungarian | Poland, Scandinavia, the Low

| Countries and France. In three Sa i 3 F. D. R. Orders Transfer to had won control of South »F | id i . Serbia, poy Important Aegean port F - Aid in Battle on Subs; | Convoys Held Unlikely.

| at Salonika and all of Macedonia | up to the Turkish frontier. The Berlin communique reported | (Continued from Page One) Had Sg beh a unified command, the Jugoslav troops. retiring | merchant ships or naval vessels into before the Germans. would have

WEDNESDAY, AFRIL 9, 1941

SEN. SHEPPARD Nazi Blitz Drive Cuts Jugoslavia in Two; DIES IN CAPITAL Salonika Falls, British Defend New Line

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match his 38 consecutive vears as a ably no large force in the Metaxas | J

member either of the House or Senate. During that time. he devoted his | time especially to two subjects—| prohibition and army problems. On| prohibition le never surrendered his conviction and each year since | 1918, the Senate has halted its busi- |

Cacek, about 90 miles to the northwest. It appeared that once again German tactics of surprise and speed had caught an enemy flat-footed.

There were virtually of heavy fighting in the Nazi ad-

no reports

Line found themselves cut off from |

the main Greek body by the cap-| ture of Salonika they capitulated | and laid down their arms. | Despite the surprising Nazi suc- |

| cesses, the British both in London

and Athens appeared confident that the situation would not prove as bad |

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|found Greek and British support as| the Germans turned southward to! [the Vardar Valley, which might] {have held up the German advance. | | Arrangements for reserve troops, |

| The situation still is in its forma- |

|tive stage and must remain so until |

ness on Jan. 16—the effective date of the Prohibition Amendment—to hear Senator Sheppard deliver a commemorative oration. He was co-author of the 18th Amendment.

| 1. Authorized Berlin quarters de- the British get ready to develop a| clared that “the more war materia] counter-thrust. What they may be (the United States sends to Jugo-|2ble to do depends in part on how (slavia, the greater will be our effectively positions have been pre- | [ booty,” and indicated that the Ger-|DPared in advance west of the SalIman press will publish President Onika plains. | Roosevelt's message to King Peter IT| These positions have considerable praising the Jugoslavs for resisting natural mountain defenses, extendja “criminal assault” and pledging |iN8 westward, while the new Ger-| U. S. aid. man line around Salonika is in flat 2. Competent quarters in Rome |a@Nd exposed country. Furthermore, said that Italy regards United States the Germans will have supply diffi seizure of Italian ships as an “act culties because of the narrow passes of war” against a country with across the Bulgar mountains into which it enjoys friendly diplomatic | Jugoslavia and thence southward to relations. The American action was Salonika. The British supply bases described as “unconstitutional” and |» central Greece are more accesin violation of international law. | Sible Mr. Barly said that when actually | It should now become a major turned over to the British the U. S. step in German strategy to try to cutters will carry only their regula- |CTOSS Jugoslavia westward to Bitol], tion armaments. The sturdy little @ few. miles north of the Greek ships apparently will have to be frontier. The British left flank will

vance into Jugosiavia. leading to as surface indications would make | | belief that the Jugoslavs had held it appear. The British claimed that | | the southern area only lightly, be- capture of Salonika was an “empty | |lieving that the sturdy mountain | victory,” because the British naval Senator Sheppard was consid-|Parriers along the Bulgarian fron- victory in the Ionian Sea had estab- |. ered an authority on Army affairs. tier would act as a bar to any bliz|lished British naval superiority | When the Democrats returned to rust. and taken away Salonika’s strategic power in 1932, he became chairman! The main German attack had |importance as the “gateway to two | of the Senate Military Affairs Com- been expected from the north across | continents. | mittee. the relatively flat Banat country] They nad strong confidence in | Recent months have seen many and the equally easy terrain of the thus far unengaged British ex- | of the major pieces of legislation go Croatia. peditionary force and seemed to bethrough his hands. Most important| Instead, the Germans apparently lieve that the Jugoslavs still would | was the conscription bill—the first withheld their attack in that area have power to fight back against the In peacetime histor: which he until the Luftwaffe could soften up Germans despite the ripping of their piloted successfully through the Jugoslav resistance by crushing at- southern lines. upper chamber early last summer. tacks upon communications and! The Royal Air Force already has As late as 1931. he did not hide concentration points such as Bel- gone into heavy action, bombing at his opposition to Franklin D. Roose- grade. German motorized columns and velt as a possible Democratic can-| The Nazi high command reported trying to break the force of their didate for President. In a discus- today the capture of only one drive across southern Serbia and | sion of Mr. Roosevelt in that year northern Jugoslav town, Maribor, a Macedonia. he said succinctly 1 disagree with border point due south of the Ger- The loss of Macedonia and Solon=- ] : t him on the prohibition question.” man military headquarters at Graz, jka had been written off by the (the country appeared to be a much fitted with anti-aireraft guns. depth have bad prolec; N this RITE: ee Mr. Sheppard was born May 28, Austria British before the campaign opened |More serious development than loss bomb racks and torpedoes before stherwise ihe Oermans will be avie 1875, at Wheatville, a village in the That would indicate that the Ger- and it appeared that no plans tor (Of Salonika. : ng [DEY actually can join the British |!0 penetrate into western Greece east Texas hills of Morris County. mans, already having concentrated any long defense of this area had |, THR Sans apparently DION eet. through the Monastir Pass The Senator's death may make their troops in Bulgaria for an at- been made. rough at The first| Word that “methods-short -of-con-| A future struggle for possession An opponent of President Roose- tack upon Greece before the possi-

Greek troops fought valiantly Was along the line on the Strumica voy» were under study to meet the Of the Monastir Pass between the velt's foreign policy chairman of bility of action against Jugoslavia particularly in the forts guarding | 1" Just honn of the Greek Irol* submarine menace to the British Germans and British may become the Senate Military Affairs Com- arose, simply threw these forces Rupel Pass, to hold off the Nazi| oo a. OE Se about 25|life-line has been passing around | Intense. since there is no other mittee. westward, across mountains and|storm troops, who attacked with Mo ¢% entered the Vardar Valley washington for some time. Congres- | Wide entrance into Greece from The ranking Democratic member rivers and succeeded in riding

| ink lv y . boa yéy OQ A Tarday tanks, flame-throwers and co-oper- | 21d a OY oh SO) 0 Secs, (vionsl leaders are confident that|Jugosiavia, west of ihe Vardar. of the committee is Senator Robert roughshod over whatever opposition ating dive-bombers. » ’ stronger, German they can defeat anti-convoy legisla- | It would seem essential for the R. Reynolds (D. N. C.). the only the Jugoslavs were able to interpose.

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The Germans claimed to have taken about 20.000 prisoners so far. including six Jugoslav generals. They have not made contact with the British Expeditionary Force in Greece although the Roval Air Force has been in furious action. attempting to halt the Nazi Panzer divisions The Jugoslav radio returned to the air today after a three-day interruption, giving the first news that has come direct from Jugoslavia since the attack started. This consisted of a brief generalized statement by the Government to the effect that “the situation is favorable” on all fronts. The occupation of Macedonia by the Germans gives them a 200mie strip of coastline on the Aegean. This cuts direct contact between Turkey and Greece. The

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Jugoslavia inferentiallv asked for Turkish support under terms of the Balkan Entente treaty when the Jugoslav Minister to Turkev informed the Turkish Government that Bulgarian troops were participating in the fighting against Jugoslavia. The entente bound one | Balkan state to aid any other which

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| Jugoslavia.” | The Italians denied that they (had evacuated Fiume on the Jugoslav border and claimed rather that they had occupied the frontier town of Krankskagora, north of Fiume. An article in the Moscow army newspaper Red Star | Russian sympathy for Jugoslavia | and said that Germany had shifted {the chief theater of war from Wesi ta East. thus ruling out possibility of an invasion of Britain for the present

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GOVERNOR SCHRICKER today proclaimed Sundav. May 18, as “I Am An American” day and urged that the day be observed as a public occasion in recognition of the citizens who have atained their majority or have been nae turalized during the last vear The Governor said that the day was to impress upon both the na« tive born and naturalized citizens “the importance of their American franchise and the prosperity and happiness which they are privileged to enjoy by reason of this citizenship.”

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